On Mon Aug 25 2025, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 09:29:36AM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> Also I couldn't really see a performance degradation with ntpperf.
>
> I was testing with an I350, not I210. Could that make a difference?

Jup, it could make a difference.

>
>> In my
>> tests the IRQ variant reached an equal or higher rate. But sometimes I
>> get 'Could not send requests at rate X'. No idea what that means.
>
> That's ntpperf giving up as the HW is too slow to send requests at
> that rate (with a single process calling sendmmsg() in a loop). You
> can add the -l option to force ntpperf to continue, but the printed
> rate values will no longer be accurate, you would need to measure it
> by some other way, e.g. by monitoring the interface packet counters.

I see.

Thanks,
Kurt

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